How do I get my UUId?

Someone wants my UUID, I've done this before but can't remember how I get it.

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Top banana, thank you very much.

or just use the search tool on this website and choose search all of second life

(worked for me)


UUID is at the bottom of the page or just look at the address in the address bar of your browser

That's the quickest way unless you have a script to hand already.

there are many different ways, including third-party sites and some bots (I imagine there are more than one, but I've only heard of one in specific, and I forgot the last name)

yep phil it is the quickest
also handy for folks who are doing scripting while off of SL and need a uuid for whatever reason

Yup website search works as well, it's the mad crazy alphanumeric code after /resident.

And, just in case somebody's wondering, the search URL is http://search.secondlife.com/search.php.

Or use Cool Viewer or Rainbow Viewer for Windows, it shows the UUID of AV's in the profile floater

It doesn't on my computer... unless it's hidden someplace. Which Cool Viewer are you thinking of?

Gotta be honest, I still go to http://w-hat.com/name2key by default. Of course, it works on accounts not listed in search and it works on people that aren't me so it's a little more thorough than most other solutions.

Damn Argent!!! Do you have a ferret foto for every single possible instance of human or weasel existence???

I tend to think of my avatar UIDD as being something akin to my national insurance or credit card number. So I'm surprised to learn others can find it easily enough.

Has anyone heard of an avatar's UIDD being used to nefarious ends? Like mimicking another avatar's identity in a script for instance?

Oh I would never use Cool Viewer. It's too cool for me.

Latest one from yesterday , 1.22.11.0 R9

Every single object, texture, avatar, everything in SL has a UUID, that's how it works. The name is more or less just a readable alias.

If one wants to abuse something, they can and will. But they can do this easier and with more impact with your name than with a UUID for the simple reason that nobody usually associates a number with your AV but a number of people may know your name.

To be honest, you're sort of right. If someone could fake your UUID then it would be an absolute catastrophe. As far as I know there's no known way to do that. If there was, the whole of SL would come crashing to the ground.

Regardless the UUID needs to be public so that the viewer and scripts and various other bits and pieces know how to send messages to you and keep track of our balance and permissions and inventory and whatever else.

doesn't bring up my alts
(and they are not "do not show in search"

and I just noticed that searching on the website will be useless if they do not have an html page generated (otherwise it just launches the client)

Sure, there's scanners around that pick up names. If you never pass by the scanner your name never gets added to the list. It's sure not perfect. Is the search more complete though? I don't think so but I could be wrong. Is there a way to get every avatar's UUID out of search somehow?

nope the search is not any better or less useful
as I mentioned, if the person/account doesn't have an html page the search is useless (all it wants to do is launch SL when you click the link provided upon search completion)

Other than having someone touch a scripted box to get the uuid, I don't think that there is any 100% way to get the uuid of all avatars

look for an avatar with first name "name2key" and send and IM to it

You can copy the link for the ones without pages to get the key, right?

Your UUID is absolutely no secret. Any script which does anything at all for you needs it. Sending inventory, paying you, animating you, you name it.

It is completely harmless. It is true that *if* you could fake a different UUID, you could circumvent a lot of built-in security, but it's tracked on the server and manipulating it would likely require a security breach of the servers of a magnitude where impersonating a single avatar would be pretty insignificant, comparatively. It is certainly not something you can do from a script.

There has been some security vulnerabilities/breaches related to the account (login/password) and to theoretically impersonating a *sim*, but there has, to my knowledge, never been a security exploit in any way related to the avatar UUID. -Though in fairness, *if* there was, it would likely be kept rather tightly under wrap.